Hi,
the new command is
ImageData[Import["imagefile", "TIFF"]]
The old version returned an Graphics[Raster[bitmapdata,__],__]
the new version return Image[bitmapdata,___]
Regards
Jens
beryllium-10 wrote:
> Several years ago I wrote a Mathematica 5.0 program to find and
> extract parts of bitmap tiff images (lines representing the horizon in
> fisheye photos of the sky). I used to open the bitmap array (i.e. an
> R x C list, where R is the pixel height of the image and C its pixel
> width) with the command:
>
> Import["imagefile", "TIFF"][[1,1]];
>
> I recently tried to use my program in Mathematica 7.0 and it seems the
> TIFF format that Mathematica is expecting has changed. I now have to
> import element [[1]] of the file, not element [[1,1]]. i.e. the new
> command to extract the array is:
>
> Import["imagefile", "TIFF"][[1]];
>
> This is not a big problem, but I cannot find when Wolfram changed the
> format that Mathematica expects to see for a TIFF file, and whether
> anything else in the specification changed. Can anyone point me at
> Mathematica documentation on this change? I want to be sure that
> nothing else changed (e.g. is Mathematica still reading the array from
> bottom left to top right of the image, etc).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help on this,
>
> John Stone
> Earth & Space Sciences, University of Washington; stone(at)geology.
> (washington).(edu)
>